League of Legends

Legends I was out mowing Friday and like any normal Legend was thinking of a new contest for the league. A few months back....(just checked it was September 2014, time has flown) I created a site called ClosingBell. It was apart of the League of Legends version 2.0 (technically we are playing on LOL v 3.0). Anyway ClosingBell was a stock pickem game where you picked the price of 5 stocks daily and you pick a closing day price. If you were within +- a certain percentage of the price you set than you got points for that pick. It was a daily thing, and a little complicated. Anyway, while mowing I was thinking there should be an easier way to make a stock pickem game for the legends. Thus the idea for Bulls and Bears was born. Here is the rough idea: Before the Monday opening bell Legends will pick 2 stocks.  Bull Stock - legends will pick a stock they think will rise this week Bear Stock - legends will pick a stock they think will fall this week Friday close prices are...

While watching MLB.TV last night I saw a good idea for a possible BarrelFire matchup. Viewers could vote on the Marquee matchup of the night. Basically they take a starting pitcher, select a batter from the opposing team lineup and determine what is the best Pitcher vs Batter Matchup of the night. Last night they featured the Strasburg v. Stanton matchup as the Nationals faced off against the Marlins. I started thinking how to score this to determine who would win. The first approach would be to come up with a scoring system assigning various values to matchup outcomes like H, Strikeout, Walk, K, etc. Quickly I realized that would be a lot of work for just a BarrelFire. Then it hit me. Someone has done all the legwork for me. I went over to http://www.fangraphs.com  and looked at the box score. They have a metric called WPA which stands for Win Probability Added. You can read the details here . Anyway so now if I just sum up the WPA for each time the batter faced the selcted ...

Man what a sports weekend. What a League of Legends weekend. We had several different events this week in the League of Legends. Sonderman rose above the rest to take the lead with a Trifecta on the Kentucky Derby yielding him 1,400 points. Check out this list of League of Legends Picks from last week. Baseball Who's Your Driver NBA Playoffs NHL Playoffs Kentucky Derby Pick May-Paq fight MLS Soccer Multiple Barrel Fires The next couple weeks will be a little quieter. We have the Preakness and the French Open coming up soon. BarrelFire upgrades I am looking to upgrade the BarrelFire game. The new game will be called HOT TAKES. There will be multiple types of fires on HOT TAKES. GreaseFire - These are very quick (less than an hour) pickems.  BarrelFire - These are quick, up to 1-2 day pickems DumpsterFire - These are couple week, to couple month long pickems TireFire - These are several months up to 1 year pickems. You will see more information about ...